SIBUYAN ISLAND, Philippines (Reuters) - Divers found bodies in lifevests bobbing in airpockets of a giant sunken ferry in the Philippines on Tuesday, and an official said it would be a miracle if any of the hundreds of missing had survived.

A relative cries as she posts a photo of her kindred, who was on board [...]

Philippine rescue divers said they found many bodies Tuesday inside the ferry that sank with more than 850 people on board, confirming the worst fears of desperate relatives.
Anxious and angry family members had been clinging to hope their loved ones might still be found alive inside the doomed Princess of the Stars, which capsized and [...]

OPEC president Chakib Khelil on Tuesday rebuffed calls from oil consuming countries to increase supply, saying the cartel had already done what it could on high prices.
“OPEC has already done what OPEC can do and prices will not come down,” Khelil told journalists as he arrived for a meeting with EU energy officials in Brussels.
However, [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: One doubles player overcame stomach cramps and knee pains to win at the Indonesian Open. Another has yet to show up for training since a freak accident.
And the different level of commitment showed by Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari and Koo Kien Keat over the last one week has drawn mixed reactions from national [...]

 
YONG Teck Lee berucap pada majlis jelajah di Kg Likas, Kota Kinabalu susulan tindakan parti itu mengisytiharkan pendirian tidak percaya kepimpinan Perdana Menteri. 
(Mutakhir) KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Tertinggi Barisan Nasional (BN) dipercayai telah memutuskan untuk mengeluarkan surat tunjuk sebab kepada Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) berikutan pendirian parti itu untuk membawa ataupun menyokong sebarang undi tidak percaya terhadap Perdana Menteri. Datuk Seri [...]

SURUHANJAYA Pilihan Raya (SPR) menjadi sasaran banyak pihak ekoran pembatalan rancangan penggunaan dakwat kekal beberap hari menjelang hari pengundian 8 Mac 2008.
KUALA LUMPUR: Kerajaan belum bercadang untuk mengambil apa-apa tindakan terhadap Pengerusi Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR), Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman atas kenyataannya yang beliau telah diarah oleh Kabinet supaya membatalkan rancangan penggunaan dakwat kekal beberapa hari sebelum pengundian dijalankan.
Menteri [...]

ABDULLAH Ahmad Badawi ketika tiba di bangunan Parlimen untuk mengambil bahagian dalam sidang Dewan Rakyat semalam. Usul undi tidak percaya yang disebut-sebutkan tidak ‘muncul’ sebaliknya yang diluluskan hanya usul kenaikan harga petroleum dan barangan.  
MINGGU lalu genap 100 hari selepas pilihan raya umum ke-12. Dalam empat bulan lagi akan genap lima tahun Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi melangkah ke Seri [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Police are investigating Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin on his statutory declaration over purported facts related to the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu under Section 203 of the Penal Code.
Federal CID director Comm Datuk Mohd Bakri Zinin said that it was an offence punishable up to two years’ jail or a fine, or [...]

HAH ALAM: After 124 days, the prosecution finally wrapped up its case in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder trial.Justice Mohd Zaki Md Yasin said he would hear submissions on July 23.
Lead prosecutor DPP Tun Abd Majid Tun Hamzah closed the case yesterday at the conclusion of the third and final trial-within-a-trial of the case to determine [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: PKR has distanced itself from the allegations made by Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin, said party vice-president Azmin Ali.
He dismissed speculation that PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was in any way involved in getting Raja Petra to make the allegations.
“Why must you link everything to him?
“That statutory declaration was [...]